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Brendan Seibel
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Jun 20, 2018
How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops
Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive
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Meagan Day
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Jun 18, 2018
The First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without This Woman
Behind the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a sisterhood
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Jun 5, 2018
America’s forgotten Filipino farmworkers: If you know Cesar Chavez, you should know Larry Itliong
When Filipino and Mexican laborers united, they had more power
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Shoshi Parks
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May 30, 2018
The not-so-sweet story of how Filipino workers tried to take on Big Sugar in Hawaii
How can you win when the media, the public, and big business are against you?
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May 16, 2018
Lucy Parsons wanted to take down the rich by any means necessary
She was a fearless radical, and the FBI watched her every move
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Meagan Day
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May 8, 2018
Welcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt in the U.S.
Southern segregation…
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Meagan Day
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May 1, 2018
White workers in New Orleans opposed segregation — out of self-interest
When white union members saw…
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Laura Smith
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Oct 9, 2017
After union activists bombed The
Los Angeles Times
, killing 21, the labor movement was ruined
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Matt Reimann
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Feb 2, 2017
At the Rock Springs massacre, 28 people were killed because white miners feared Chinese immigrants
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